nanoman92 t1_irf5vqd wrote
The first crusade came mostly from France.
At the time, the king of France had very little power outside of his limited realm around Paris, so the country didn't very much work at all as a "unit" (talking in late medieval terms here), for France this wouldn't start happening again until about a century later.
If something it probably made things a bit easier for the king of France.
jezreelite t1_irg7dtg wrote
The fact that most of the First Crusade were French is why the Muslim chroniclers of the period referred to all Western Catholics they met as "Franj" or "Ifranji": the Franks.
nanoman92 t1_irikyll wrote
That may be Byzantine influence, they had been refering to westerners as Franks since Charlemagne.
Hermano_Hue t1_irl1evr wrote
I think its due to the umayyads invading the iberian peninsula, since then they have been naming the western armies as franks
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